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Christiane Hümmer GWN Conference 2004 A Corpus Based Approach to Near Synonymy of German Multi-Word Expressions Christiane Hümmer Collocations in the Dictionary Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences

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Christiane Hümmer GWN Conference 2004 The Corpus DWDS Corpus –constructed as part of the project Digital Dictionary of German of the 20th Century –located at Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences –980 million words –covering the whole 20th century www.dwds.de

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Christiane Hümmer GWN Conference 2004 Introduction to the Subject Corpus based approach to Synonymy of Multi-Word Expressions (MWE) –for each MWE, describe the context conditions as found in the corpus –state the degree of semantic distance in terms of converging or diverging context conditions –state fine-grained differences in maximally similar contexts

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Christiane Hümmer GWN Conference 2004 Conditions of Semantic Difference semantic closeness or distance determined by: presence or absence of certain semantic arguments semantic and syntactic role they play in the sentence semantic class of the lexical items that realise them

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Christiane Hümmer GWN Conference 2004 Conclusion I degree of synonymity of the two idioms in use is proportional to the degree of overlap of possible contexts subtle semantic differences are present and observable on the basis of corpus data even in contexts where the expressions are maximally synonymous

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Christiane Hümmer GWN Conference 2004 Conclusion II establish a synonymy scale discuss the concept of interchangeability show how corpus evidence reflects meaning as a property of the lexical item

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